Primary Care – Juneau area

Arc Health is seeking highly experienced, flexible and independent FNPs and PAs to practice at the top of their license to serve in Juneau and the surrounding villages for 4-6 weeks at a time for multiple assignments throughout 2024. This position is not for the faint at heart. This is a tough but highly rewarding position helping patients who might not otherwise get direct care. Temp and permanent opportunities. Ideal candidates must be:

* Comfortable with solo staffing and working independently.
* Clinically capable, resourceful, adaptable, industrious, and personally willing to be flexible, and interested in making a long-term commitment to serving this rural community.
* Compassionate, mission-driven social medicine practitioners
* Interested in joining a dynamic and potentially disruptive social healthcare enterprise

Practice Description

* Schedule: 4-6 weeks at a time, on an ongoing basis. May spend ~1 week in the city of Juneau before or after village work. Travel to village is by fixed-wing/float aircraft or ferry only.
* Support staff (in some locations): 1-2 Community Health Aides (trained and certified), receptioniste
* EMR: Cerner
* Further details: Housing and travel provided. Providers in village clinics operate independently. Communication systems allow for prompt communication to Juneau, emergency services (medivac) available for urgent and emergency needs.
* Provides routine and emergency ambulatory and preventive care services during regularly scheduled hours in cooperation with other medical practitioners including assessment, diagnosis and treatment of routine illnesses (in adults and pediatric patients); management of chronic health problems; primary care for trauma cases, including suturing and casting; emergency care, including starting IV’s, establishing adequate airways, and managing CPR and shock; screening of patients; provides family planning and counseling services; provides routine physical examinations for work and school.
* Maintains accurate, current medical records using the Patient Care Information System or Cerner for all patients seen.
* Participates in Health Center quality assurance activities.
* Dispenses pharmaceuticals in accordance with standing orders or by order of precepting physician.
* Performs and interprets routine laboratory tests.
* Orders and makes initial interpretations of extremity and chest X-ray.
* Uses diagnostic instruments (e.g. ophthalmoscope, otoscope, stethoscope, EKG, etc.) as necessary to perform examinations.

Requirements:

* Unrestricted Alaskan medical license and DEA required to start.
* Nurse Practitioner of Physician Assistant certification
* Knowledge and ability to perform effectively the above duties.
* Knowledge of child and adolescent growth and development plus psychological and emotional needs of adults.
* Must be able to use judgement in interpreting and, with some patient conditions, adapting guidelines; to determine which patient conditions can be treated independently and which must be referred; and in assessment of patients, initiating treatment programs, evaluating the effectiveness of care, and modifying treatment with appropriate intervention.
* Current BLS, ACLS. PALS certification required. CALS and WFR certification helpful, but not required.
* At least 5 years experience in direct patient care including primary, urgent and emergency care

Timelines:

* Credentialing, security and health takes about 2 months following submission of a complete application.

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Apply now: Bonnie.Hamel@ArcHealthJustice.com

Work Schedule:

Varied

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